Serious unclassified road crash in Lancaster LA1 on 30 October 1999 at 11:30 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Lancaster at 11:30 on Saturday 30 October 1999. A 4-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 30 Oct 1999
- Saturday, 11:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.05766, longitude -2.79008, in the LA1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Lancaster.
Map of where the crash happened in Lancaster
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199904B071799
- Council area
- Lancaster
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 January 1984.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Lancaster, 4 January 1984
20 m awayRef 1984040BA0010
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in Lancaster, 31 July 1993
22 m awayRef 199304B119493
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on an unclassified road in Lancaster, 7 June 2003
45 m awayRef 200304B032703
Slight
Van crash on the A683 in Lancaster, 9 July 1981
50 m awayRef 1981040BA0874
Slight
Car crash on the A683 in Lancaster, 17 April 1979
51 m awayRef 1979040BA0479
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Lancaster, 23 August 1996
60 m awayRef 199604B038096
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 4, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
Data source
This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 199904B071799 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Lancaster road accident statistics for 1999.